Winter Break

For my final blog I did not know what to write about so I just figured winter break would be a good topic. I can not wait because this means I get to see all my best friends for longer than two days a month. This means a whole month of nothing to do other than have fun with my friends and family. However though I still will have to work a little on the weekends. This will be a good break but I have a feeling when school and my other jobs here at SWIC start up again that it will take me a couple weeks to get in the swing of things again. Speaking of my jobs at SWIC, this is a little off topic but, I just got another job other than being on the College Activities board. I will be in the front office so come in and say hi. A week from today is when break starts for me and I can not wait till then. I wish time could just fast forward a week.

Last minute college stress

This week has been crazy with all the essay that have been due. Of course me being me I waited till the last possible moment to do all of it. So I do not have anyone to blame for my stress other than me. Today I had an eight page or more essay due in my sociology 153. I wrote the paper on teen pregnancy. This subject I thought would be easy to do but surprisingly it was not. I also had a precis in my Ethics class that I had to write. I wrote it this morning in forty five minutes so I am not going to get a good grade. Now I am writing an essay for tomorrow for my Art history class. It is about Native American art. I hope that it is easier than the essays that I been doing. I really do not feel like staying up again till three in the morning. I do not do well with little sleep. Well this week will be over soon and then I will be happy again.

Due Date (Movie)

This past Friday I went out to eat and to see a movie with some friends. First we ate at Red Lobster, which was delicious as always. Then after that we went to go see the movie Due Date. Robert Downey Jr and Zach Galifianakis star in the movie. Ethan Tremblay (Zach Galifianakis) is on the same flight as Peter Highman (Robert Downey Jr.) but before it even can take off the get kicked off of it because of Ethan. They are both put on the no fly list. Peter's wife is pregnant and will be having the baby soon so he must now drive across county to get there in time but all his belongs including his wallet is on the plane that is long gone. So Peter ends up riding with Ethan across county which leads to a series of funny events. I thought the movie was funny but still had a point. A lot of funny movies do not have a point to it but this one did. I would recommend that you go and see it sometime soon it is not a waste of money to go see it.

So excited!

Tomorrow night will be my first meeting for my trip to Ireland after next semester. I will probably be blogging about Ireland a lot just because I am way to excited not to blog about it. During the meeting I will get to meet everyone that is coming along on the trip which is also exciting because I really want to know who I am going to be sharing this twelve day adventure with. I will also meet my professor that I will be taking Irish History with next semester. Also I will learn about what I need to bring to Ireland. I cant wait to know what kind of clothes I will need because then that means that I will need to go shopping. I am working like crazy to save up money for this trip. I am about half way there so I need to pick it up on the making money part because all the money is due in February. I am so excited to get there even though it is still about six months away.

Runaways

This past weekend I watched the Runaways to see what all the hype was about. Needless to say the movie was over talked about. It was just a regular common movie that you are not sure to like or not. Kristen Stewart plays Joan Jett and Dakota Fanning plays Cherie Currie. When I first heard that Dakota Fanning was playing Cherie Currie, I thought she would be to young but come to find out while watching the move Currie was only fifteen when she started singing for the Runaways. Like every movie there was good parts and bad parts. The drug and sex scenes dragged on even though I know that did play a major role in their lives. I always liked seeing what their crazy manager would say or do next. All together I would say that if it is a boring night and nothing is on tv to watch the Runaways, it is not that bad. It just is not great that I would go out of my way to see it.

It was a boring week

I am sorry but I really do not have anything to talk about. This week was very boring for me. All I pretty much did was go to school and go to work. I carved pumpkins Friday with my friend. We each carved two pumpkins and we each had a good one and one that was when you looked at it you just thought "wow, what happened there." I did a really cool happy face on one, well it was suppose to look cool. My other pumpkin I like I carved a spider in a spider web, it turned out way better than I thought it was going to. On Saturday night I went to a friends house and watched The Backup Plan. It was pretty good. I was romantic comedy, which I love to watch. That is pretty much all I did this week other than work and classes. I am sorry that I just bored and wasted your time with this blog because I was so boring this week. Hopefully next blog will be ten times better.

Wisdom Teeth

This video I saw on the Ellen Degeneres Show the other week. I remembered about it today since the past couple days I have been in pain because my wisdom teeth are coming in. Nothing really helps the pain because it is like someone cutting your gums all day long. So I will I have to get them taken out in the next few weeks or so. When I watch this video I just hope that I do not act like that, even though it would be funny. My favorite part of the video is when the boy did not know his sister and was about to cry when she was touching him or when he asked his sister to marry him and she reaction was funny. Well I hope you guys liked the video and I hope this is not how I will be in the next couple weeks.

The Pink Party 3

On Monday night I went to a fashion show. It was called the Pink Party because the proceeds went to breast cancer. It was the first time I have ever been to a fashion show and it was amazing. There was pink everywhere from table clothes to flashing lights. Before the actual show began four schools around the area got to show off some of their creations. Then the actual show began and every designer had their own theme. Some of my favorite was Alice in Wonderland theme, through the decades, and the colors of the rainbow. At the show we got little gift bags at our table with hand lotion and face mask cream. I also have probably about fifteen or so Ed Hardy perfume samples because the lady would not stop giving me them. All and all I loved the show and hope that I get to go to more fashion shows in the future. Maybe I need to figure out when fashion week is in St. Louis and try and figure out how to get to go to them because buying a table or seat at a show probably is not cheap. 

Exhausted!

This weekend was a exhausting one. On Friday I went to class until 12:25 then went home ate and got ready to be at work at three in Fairview Heights. That night  I was working as a banquet server. I got paid nine dollars an hour and got ninety in tips which then made my hourly wage about twenty two. I got off work that night a little after eleven got home at midnight and was in bed a little before one. The next day I had to be right back there at nine until nine. I had a twelve hour shift that day because we were having two wedding receptions. One was at eleven and the other was at five. This was the first time we did two weddings in one day so we did not know how things would go but everything went great. I got off work at nine got home at ten and was in bed by eleven. I had to get up on Sunday at five to make it to work by seven. On Sunday however I was outside all day freezing and getting rained on. I had to grill hamburger and hot dogs for the tournament that was going on that day. Nothing at all was going right for me that day. The refrigerator went out so I had to put everything in coolers, the propane was left on all night by the girl the day before, and I had to deal with a lot of crabby golfers since it was rainy out.

My Weekend

This weekend was a busy one. I went to baseball games on Thursday and Friday night. Then on Saturday was my grandpa's wedding. Which was kind of weird because everyone would just look at me funny when they asked me what I was doing this weekend and I said I was going to my grandpa's wedding. It was a very long day with all the pictures and trying to keep all my little cousins in order ( I have ten of them that are eight or younger). When everything was all over at midnight, I ended up with my cousin's boyfriend's brand new Camaro and my eight year old cousin that feel asleep within a half an hour and I got forty dollars for watching her. On Sunday I had my friend's bridal shower. She is getting married on October 2. She is very young to be getting married, she just turned twenty this month. She also has a child that is almost a year. The bridal shower was here in Red Bud at Rats park. It was nice weather out when we had the shower a four that afternoon even though it rained all night and part of the morning.

Cardinals games this week

Tonight I will be at the Cardinals vs. Cubs game. One of my friends is in a fraternity at SIUE and they were selling tickets for tonights game for thirty five dollars ( face value of forty five). So tonight is more about seeing old friends I haven't seen in awhile than watching the Cardinals because lets face they are not doing so hot right now. Then on Thursday I will be going to the game when they play the Padres. I got four free tickets to the game so why not go. Then I will be at the game once again Friday night because I got buy one get one free in the Casino Queen Party Porch section. I will be paying about fifty dollars for three games which is a good deal. So this week I will be at a lot of the Cardinals games so lets hope they when because I not about to go watch a whole bunch of losing. But if they do lose them all well hopefully I am close enough to get a good view of Colby Rasmus because he is the hottest one the team and I will be wearing his jersey.

I'm going to Ireland!

I just found out this week that I will be going to Ireland. It will be for a class here at SWIC. I will be taking Hist 299 (Irish History) during the spring semester. Then at the end of May and the beginning of June I will be in Ireland for twelve days. The Hist 299 and the trip to Ireland are two different things, so I will be getting six credit hours all together. So pretty much I will be getting three credit hours in twelve days to have a great time in Ireland. I do have to write a fifteen page paper about the trip but that isn't a big deal.

It will be about $3,500 to go but it will be totally worth every penny. It includes my airfare, the 4-star hotels, dinners, breakfasts, museums, and our English talking tour guide. To the right is one of the many places I will get to visit. It is the Kilmainham Gaol (Jail). It was once a prison but is now a museum. It was built in 1796, where leaders of Irish rebellions were imprisoned and some were executed (http://www.igp-web.com/carlow/Kilmainham_Gaol.htm).
I can't wait to go, it is going to be the best experience of my life. I will get to share this experience with one of my best friends which will make it ten times better.